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          Autobiography of a Face

          Memoir by Lucy Grealy

          AuthorLucy Grealy
          LanguageEnglish
          GenreAutobiography/ Memoir
          Published1994
          PublisherHarper Collins
          Publication placeUnited States
          ISBN978-0-544-83739-3

          Autobiography of a Face is a memoir by Lucy Grealy in which she narrates her life before and after being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma.

          The memoir describes her life from the age of nine to adulthood.

          Autobiography of a Face is a memoir written by award-winning poet Lucy Grealy.

        1. Autobiography of a Face is a memoir written by award-winning poet Lucy Grealy.
        2. Lucy Grealy chronicles her journey from childhood cancer survivor to a young woman grappling with the emotional scars of her altered appearance.
        3. At the age of 9, Lucy collides with a classmate during a game of dodgeball.
        4. Autobiography of a Face is a memoir by Lucy Grealy in which she narrates her life before and after being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma.
        5. In Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy shares her heartbreaking experience of growing up with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare form of cancer.

          6. In this memoir, she narrates the consequences of the disease in her emotional life as well as the physical implications that it had on her face, which resulted in a lifetime of self-consciousness. When interviewed about the memoir in 1994 by Charley Rose, the author explained that the book's principal theme was identity.[citation needed]

          The memoir first began as an essay, entitled Mirrorings, she was commissioned to write for an anthology.

          Prior to its publication in the anthology Grealy sold the essay to Harper's Magazine w